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During the French Revolution, how did the French address non-citizens?
I've read in multiple books and articles that during the French Revolution the address of monsieur / madame (my lord / my lady) was suspended in favor of the more égalité-friendly citoyen / citoyenne (...
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Why did many Hungarians support Maria Theresa?
In the first decade of the 18th century, Hungarians fought a very exhausting and, in the end, unsuccessful war to secede from the Habsburg Empire and re-establish their old kingdom.
That time, the ...
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Did international politics drive the creation of American political parties?
Knowing how much early American statesmen disliked the idea of factions, it seems contradictory that parties were formed. Surely, something changed the minds of even the staunchest anti-faction ...
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Why did the United States under the Articles of Confederation have a hard time getting funding?
I see it written in many sources (examples: 1 and 2) that the central government under the Articles of Confederation could only "request" funds from the states. But the text of the Articles seems ...
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How did the central government of the United States finance itself under the Articles of Confederation?
The Congress of the Confederation couldn't levy taxes. State governments were the ones with the power to control commerce with other states and nations even. It also has the power to levy tax.
If ...
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How did the Alien and Sedition acts pass?
The Alien and Sedition acts, passed in 1798, are said to have been an attempt by the Federalist Party to suppress opposition.
In Chapter 74 Section 2, the law seems to put restrictions on freedom of ...
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How stable was the Middle East under Ottoman rule?
Since the outbreak of WWI, the Middle East has been a strategic area; many powers have vied for control.
How stable was the region under Ottoman rule?
Stable is, for the purposes of this question, ...
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Was there continuity in the political elite between the Confederation Congress and the US Congress?
I mean the Congress under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 to 1789. Did the Constitutional system sweep aside the former class of politicians who made a poor job of government under the ...
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Were British parliamentary seats really advertised in newspapers?
I have this vague recollection of reading about actual ads in newspapers selling seats in the British parliament (18th or 19th century pocket/rotten boroughs)
Did they actually have ads in newspapers?...
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Did the American Founders Debate on the Relative Size of the Government?
It seems to me that the concern with the size of government, specifically that it's too large and therefore complex, is a relatively modern concern in American politics. I would assume that given the ...
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Is the USA Congress explicitly patterned after the British Parliament?
I have always presumed this to be the case. They have a similar form: two chambers, the lower representing "all the people" and the upper representing, very roughly speaking, "institutional forces" (...
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What factors led to the rise of political parties in the United States?
I know that at the time the Constitution was drafted partisan political parties did not exist, not in the way that we conceive of them today, and George Washington did not have a political party. ...
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